knight17

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   by knight17 11y ago

   This is a comment made at Yahoo news page: Driving trucks has been a good paying job for lots of people in the past. Between robot trucks and robot burger flippers, everything might be cheaper, but still people won't be able to
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   by knight17 11y ago

   There are no exact replacements with GUI and everything, but there are few options: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/12-best-yahoo-pipes-alternative...
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   by knight17 11y ago

   I also have the same feeling that thin fonts look ugly on my humble LCD screen with dismal resolution and low ppi. I was once complaining to a friend how ugly site X is and he said it looked right to him; later when I saw his machine it has
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   by knight17 11y ago

   ThinkPads had the best keyboards while it was in IBM's hands, it was great with the Lenovo built machines until they started to modernise the keyboard. Now every Windows laptop in each price bands are almost same, except for the fact
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   by knight17 11y ago

   I use OnTopReplica for doing this system wide. Got great deal of options like enabling click-thrus, transparency and the like. Very handy. https://ontopreplica.codeplex.com/
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   by knight17 11y ago

   I have read (not sure) that Lee Kuan Yew wanted Singapore to become a British protectorate. In his calculation it was a waste to spend money on a military when it was in short supply.
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   by knight17 11y ago

   The Fall of the House of Saud The Atlantic. May 2003 http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2003/05/the-fall... "A former CIA operative argues, in an article drawn form his new book, Sleeping W
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   by knight17 11y ago

   "This Scandinavian nation of 9 million people has accomplished what the United States, Britain and Japan can only dream of: Growing rapidly, creating jobs and gaining a competitive edge. The banks are lending, the housing market boomin
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   by knight17 11y ago

   Yes; like the article says it is justified for the same heads that get bonuses to get the penalties too when things go bust.
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    by knight17 11y ago

    I just checked the CFA Institute website. They say you must have a "bachelor's (or equivalent) degree or be in the final year" of one OR four year work experience (in any field) OR combined education + work experience of four
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    by knight17 11y ago

    To become a CPA the candidate needs 150 credit hour education. This can be achieved in two ways: 1. Get a masters degree in accounting 2. Bachelor degree + other courses for credit from online diploma mills (University of Phoenix) or simila
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    by knight17 11y ago

    PwC, and other Big 4 and even small accounting firms in the UK already have a school leavers program. You join the firms out of school, they will ask you to register with ICAEW/ACCA and study to become a chartered accountant (CPA in th
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    by knight17 11y ago

    Android phone manufacturers blindly push their hardware specifications--multi-core processors with weak individual cores. They promise the moon and deliver this. This is a test to see whether they are able to deliver. As a participant poin
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    by knight17 11y ago

    First EY removing degree classification from hiring decisions, now Deloitte promising to overlook the university the candidate went. Both developments from the UK, I wonder why the US firms of EY and Deloitte did not take the lead in going
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    by knight17 11y ago

    None of my friends use G+ but it has lots of active communities and there are many people who use it in a twitter-like manner -- posting non-personal items, starting discussions and the like that are crowd pullers (+1s, comments, resharing
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    by knight17 11y ago

    Ribbon is collapsible in all Microsoft applications: Ctrl+F1 or click on the ^ in the right most part of the ribbon.
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    by knight17 11y ago

    Does the search folders work for RSS feeds too?
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    by knight17 11y ago

    How is RSS support in Outlook?
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    by knight17 11y ago

    How can you scan a paperback book in 10 minutes? Curious about the kind of hardware-software set up that allows to do that in 10 minutes
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    by knight17 11y ago

    I use it with Feedly with around 600+ feeds. I also have a Google CSE set up with my subscriptions. Google Reader had the best search ever. Sad that it was shuttered. The majority of content comes from few big sites so I put them into HF an
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    Search engine ethics(philbradley.typepad.com)

    1 points by knight17 11y ago|0 comments
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    by knight17 11y ago

    This article is from 1992. Ganga is still unclean.
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    Android’s fragmentation problem is replaced by support library problem(nickbradbury.com)

    1 points by knight17 11y ago|0 comments
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    by knight17 11y ago

    Having access to the navigational keys without moving your hands much is a different experience—reduces movement and feels faster. [1] works with Windows and Linux [2] works in Windows only: - [1] http://forum.colemak.com&#x2F
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    Avoid premature optimization. Don’t worry about your tools in the beginning(sachachua.com)

    1 points by knight17 12y ago|0 comments
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    by knight17 13y ago

    Would love to see some more great Russian novels (Dostoevsky, anyone?) in the list instead of many US centric books currently there.
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    by knight17 13y ago

    A fork of the original Console 2, called Console : https://github.com/cbucher/console/
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    Why I run away from Knuth(lispmachine.wordpress.com)

    22 points by knight17 18y ago|40 comments
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    by knight17 18y ago

    If some actively develops it, we all can get free hosting!